It is an annual conference held in New Delhi and India’s flagship conference of Geopolitics and geo-economics.
It is organized by Ministry of External Affairs in partnership with Observer Research Foundation, an independent think tank in India.
The first inaugural session was held in March 2016 with the theme “Connecting Asia”.
The second edition is being held in Delhi with the theme "The New Normal: Multilateralism with Multi-Polarity”.
Google Tax:
The Google Tax was announced to introduce a tax on the income as accrue to a foreign e-commerce company outside of India.
Any person or entity that makes a payment exceeding Rs 1 lakh in a financial year to a non-resident technology company will need to withhold 6% tax on the gross amount being paid as an equalisation levy or Google tax.
This tax, however, is only applicable when the payment has been made to avail certain B2B services from these technology companies.
5D technique to detect Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease:
Proteins are essential to the function of every cell. Sometimes proteins don't form properly called as amyloids.
The amyloids can clump together into masses in the brain and block normal cell function, leading to brain cell degeneration and disease - Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
5D finger printtechnique helps to identify theprocesses of how amyloids form and clump together.
The technique uses a nanopore 10-30 nanometers wide filled with a salt solution and passed an electric current through the solution.
As a protein molecule tumbles through the nanopore, its movement causes measurable fluctuations in the electric current whichreveals the 5 dimensional signatures of protein.
Thus, individual protein's shape, volume, electrical charge, rotation speed and propensity for binding to other molecules is measured to identify the process of formation of clumps.
